{"id":59357,"date":"2025-07-13T17:56:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T17:56:04","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-10-22T19:05:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T01:05:50","slug":"cve-2025-46715-kernel-pointer-vulnerability-in-sandboxie-versions-prior-to-1-15-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-46715-kernel-pointer-vulnerability-in-sandboxie-versions-prior-to-1-15-12\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>CVE-2025-46715: Kernel Pointer Vulnerability in Sandboxie Versions Prior to 1.15.12<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Overview<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sandboxie is a well-known isolation software for Windows NT-based operating systems, used by many businesses and private users to create a secure environment for testing and running untrusted applications. This post aims to shed light on a critical vulnerability (CVE-2025-46715) found in versions 1.3.0 to 1.15.11 of Sandboxie. This vulnerability, if exploited, could <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-27055-memory-corruption-leads-to-potential-system-compromise-during-image-encoding\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"74236\">potentially lead to full system compromise<\/a> or data leakage.<br \/>\nThe importance of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-58280-object-heap-address-exposure-vulnerability-in-ark-ets\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"87282\">addressing this vulnerability<\/a> cannot be overstated. It <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-7093-critical-vulnerability-in-belkin-f9k1122-1-00-33-impacting-system-security-and-data-integrity\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"91198\">impacts a broad range of systems<\/a>, from private users to businesses, and poses a high risk due to its ability to be exploited by anyone on the system, including low integrity windows processes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vulnerability Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CVE ID: CVE-2025-46715<br \/>\nSeverity: High (7.8 CVSS)<br \/>\nAttack Vector: Local<br \/>\nPrivileges Required: Low<br \/>\nUser Interaction: None<br \/>\nImpact: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-21432-memory-corruption-vulnerability-resulting-in-potential-system-compromise-or-data-leakage\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"75832\">System compromise or data<\/a> leakage<\/p>\n<p><strong>Affected Products<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"ameeb-1970999338\" class=\"ameeb-content-2 ameeb-entity-placement\"><div style=\"border-left: 4px solid #555; padding-left: 20px; margin: 48px 0; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: #ffffff; line-height: 1.6; max-width: 720px;\">\r\n  <h2 style=\"margin-top: 0; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 600; display: flex; align-items: center; letter-spacing: -0.02em;\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\" style=\"display: inline-flex; align-items: center; margin-right: 10px;\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Best-App-icon-Ameeba.png\" alt=\"Ameeba Chat Icon\" style=\"width: 42px; height: 42px;\" \/>\r\n    <\/a>\r\n    Share secrets securely\r\n  <\/h2>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"margin-bottom: 14px; color: #d1d5db;\">\r\n    Ameeba is private infrastructure for communication and sensitive work built on encrypted identity instead of exposed corporate identity systems.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"margin-bottom: 18px; color: #a1a1aa;\">\r\n    Passwords, credentials, confidential files, screenshots, internal discussions, sensitive AI context, and private coordination should not become exposed across ordinary communication platforms.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <ul style=\"list-style: none; padding-left: 0; margin-bottom: 24px; color: #e4e4e7;\">\r\n    <li style=\"margin-bottom: 8px;\">\u2022 Encrypted identity<\/li>\r\n    <li style=\"margin-bottom: 8px;\">\u2022 Private Spaces for organizations and teams<\/li>\r\n    <li style=\"margin-bottom: 8px;\">\u2022 End-to-end encrypted chat, calls, files, and notes<\/li>\r\n    <li style=\"margin-bottom: 8px;\">\u2022 Sensitive AI work and protected collaboration<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 Built for information that cannot leak<\/li>\r\n  <\/ul>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: 600; margin-bottom: 24px; color: #ffffff;\">\r\n    Our mission is to secure human work alongside AI.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <div style=\"display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: 12px;\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\/download\" style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; padding: 10px 20px; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 8px; font-weight: 500;\">\r\n      Download Ameeba\r\n    <\/a>\r\n\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ffffff; color: #ffffff; padding: 10px 20px; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 8px; font-weight: 500;\">\r\n      Learn More\r\n    <\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>Product | Affected Versions<\/p>\n<p>Sandboxie | 1.3.0 &#8211; 1.15.11<\/p>\n<p><strong>How the Exploit Works<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-49661-untrusted-pointer-dereference-vulnerability-in-windows-ancillary-function-driver-for-winsock\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"80361\">vulnerability lies in the Api_GetSecureParam function<\/a> of Sandboxie, which fails to sanitize incoming pointers. This function implicitly trusts that the pointer passed by the user is safe to write to. However, an attacker can pass in a kernel pointer, and the driver subsequently dumps the contents of the Sandboxie (SBIE) registry entry selected to this address. This can be triggered by anyone on the system, including processes with low integrity, and it could <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-40741-stack-based-overflow-vulnerability-in-solid-edge-se2025-leading-to-potential-system-compromise\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"75831\">lead to system<\/a> compromise or data leakage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conceptual Example Code<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"ameeb-1005340301\" class=\"ameeb-content ameeb-entity-placement\"><div class=\"poptin-embedded\" data-id=\"f6b387694f681\"><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/div>\n<p>The following pseudocode describes a conceptual exploitation of this vulnerability:<\/p>\n<pre><code class=\"\" data-line=\"\">\/\/ Pseudocode for CVE-2025-46715 exploit\n\/\/ Start a low integrity process\nprocess lowIntegrityProcess = StartLowIntegrityProcess();\n\/\/ Obtain a kernel pointer\npointer kernelPointer = GetKernelPointer();\n\/\/ Call the vulnerable function, passing the kernel pointer\nlowIntegrityProcess.Call(&quot;Api_GetSecureParam&quot;, kernelPointer);\n\/\/ The driver writes the registry key contents to the kernel pointer<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>In the above pseudocode, a process with low integrity level is started, a kernel pointer is obtained, and then the Api_GetSecureParam function is called with the kernel pointer as an argument. This results in the driver writing the contents of a specified <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-49675-kernel-streaming-wow-thunk-service-driver-use-after-free-vulnerability\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"78786\">Sandboxie<\/a> registry entry to the kernel pointer. It effectively bypasses the isolation provided by Sandboxie, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-27050-memory-corruption-vulnerability-leading-to-potential-system-compromise-and-data-leakage\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"74782\">leading to potential system compromise or data<\/a> leakage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recommended Mitigation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Users of Sandboxie are strongly advised to upgrade to version 1.15.12 or later, which contains a patch that fixes this vulnerability. If upgrading is not immediately possible, consider using a Web Application Firewall (WAF) or an Intrusion Detection System (IDS) as a temporary mitigation measure. However, these should not be seen as long-term solutions, and the patch should be applied as soon as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview Sandboxie is a well-known isolation software for Windows NT-based operating systems, used by many businesses and private users to create a secure environment for testing and running untrusted applications. This post aims to shed light on a critical vulnerability (CVE-2025-46715) found in versions 1.3.0 to 1.15.11 of Sandboxie. This vulnerability, if exploited, could potentially [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"vendor":[88,82],"product":[95],"attack_vector":[],"asset_type":[],"severity":[],"exploit_status":[],"class_list":["post-59357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","vendor-linux","vendor-microsoft","product-linux-kernel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59357"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84217,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59357\/revisions\/84217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59357"},{"taxonomy":"vendor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vendor?post=59357"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=59357"},{"taxonomy":"attack_vector","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/attack_vector?post=59357"},{"taxonomy":"asset_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/asset_type?post=59357"},{"taxonomy":"severity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/severity?post=59357"},{"taxonomy":"exploit_status","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exploit_status?post=59357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}